Benicio Del Toro Quotes

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

When you act against a blue screen, you have to imagine what's not there.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.